Data-Centric Engineering (DCE) - an open-access journal at Cambridge University Press (2022 Impact Factor: 3.6) - is delighted to partner with The 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2023). Authors who took part in the Conference are invited to submit their work to DCE by April 1 2024 to be included in a special collection dedicated to the event.
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About BuildSys
Advances in the effective integration of networked sensors, building controls, and physical infrastructure are transforming our society, allowing the formation of unprecedented built environments and interlocking physical, social, cyber challenges. Moreover, built environments, including buildings and critical urban infrastructure, account for over half of society's energy consumption and are the mainstay of our nation's economy, security and health. As a result, there is a broad recognition that systems optimizing explicitly for the built environment are particularly important in improving our society, and represent the foundation for emerging "smart cities".
BuildSys is a venue for researchers and practitioners working to develop and optimize such smart infrastructure systems that are driven by networked sensing, computing, and control functions. Authors who took part in the 2023 edition of the Conference are encouraged to submit their work to DCE to be considered for a special collection.
Timetable
- Submission Deadline: April 1, 2024
- First Round Decision Notification: June 1, 2024 (Target Date)
- Manuscript Revision: August 1, 2024 (Target Date)
- Final Decision Notification: September 1, 2024 (Target Date)
- Final Version: October 1, 2024 (Target Date)
DCE publishes on a continuous and open-access basis: articles are published as soon as possible after acceptance. All accepted papers will be assembled on a special collection page dedicated to BuildSys 2023, introduced by an editorial.
Why Submit to DCE?
✔ A venue dedicated to the potential of data science for all areas of engineering.
✔ Welcoming research and translational articles from authors, whether they are based in academia or industry.
✔ Well-cited (2022 Impact Factor: 3.6; 2022 Cite Score: 3.4) and indexed in Web of Science, Scopus and Directory of Open Access Journals.
✔ #OpenAccess with support for unfunded authors thanks to the Lloyd's Register Foundation - no hard requirement to pay an article processing charge (APC).
✔ Promotes open sharing of data and code through Open Science Badges.
How to Submit
Key considerations for submitting are below, with full details available in the DCE Instructions for Authors.
Marked-up manuscript
We expect authors who published as part of the official BuildSys 2023 Proceedings to update or adapt their paper by 30% before submission to DCE. Please provide a marked-up manuscript showing the changes made.
Article types
When they submit to DCE authors are given the following option of article types to select from:
- Research articles using data science methods and models for improving the reliability, resilience, safety, efficiency and usability of engineered systems.
- Translational papers demonstrating the downstream benefits of data-intensive engineering - and the underlying data science principles, techniques and technologies - to wider society, economy, environment, health and way of life. For some more detailed instructions, see this guide to translational papers.
- Data papers that describe in a structured way, with a narrative and accompanying metadata, important and re-usable data sets in open repositories with potential for re-use in engineering research and practice. These papers promote data transparency and data re-use.
- Survey papers providing a detailed, balanced and authoritative current account of the existing literature concerning data-intensive methods in a particular facet of engineering sciences.
- Tutorial reviews providing an introduction and overview of an important topic of relevance to the journal readership. The topic should be of relevance to both students and researchers who are new to the field as well as experts and provide a good introduction to the development of a subject, its current state and indications of future directions the field is expected to take
We anticipate that most BuildSys articles will be submitted as research articles.
Templates
Authors have the option but are not required to use the following templates:
- DCE LaTeX template files
- Overleaf (a LaTeX-based collaborative authoring tool; read about benefits of this tool)
- DCE Word template
Note that authors should provide both an abstract that summarises the paper (250 words or less) and beneath it an impact statement (120 words describing the significance of the findings in language that can be understood by a wide audience). Competing interest, funding and data availability statements should be provided at the end of the main text above the references (see disclosure statements).
Articles should be submitted through the DCE ScholarOne Manuscripts system, but note that if you use the Overleaf tool you can submit directly into the system without having to reupload files.
Open Materials
Authors are encouraged to make code and data that supports the findings openly available in a recognised repository and to link to them in the Data Availability Statement in the article. See the DCE Research Transparency policy. Open Data and Open Materials badges will be displayed on published articles that link to replication materials, as a recognition of open practices.
Open Access
Any author can publish on an open access basis in DCE if accepted, irrespective of their funding situation or institutional affiliation. There are no financial barriers to publication. Many articles are covered through the Transformative Agreements that Cambridge has set up with universities worldwide. If the corresponding author on an article is affiliated with a Transformative Agreement this effectively covers open access publishing costs. Authors not affiliated with these agreements who have grants that budget for open access publication are encouraged to pay an article processing charge (APC). However, if an author has no funding and no institutional agreement, the charge will be waived without question. DCE is supported by a grant from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, which helps subsidise the publishing costs of unfunded authors.
Guest Editors
- Wan Du (University of California, Merced)
- Rajesh Gupta (University of California, San Diego)
- Clayton Miller (National University of Singapore)
- Zoltan Nagy (University of Texas, Austin)